Using Qt Quick controls, views, scene graph without QML

Is it possible to use QtQuick controls, views, scene graph, etc, without using QML at all?

I realize that the question might seem strange and even anti-thetical to the Qt Quick "philosophy" but I am a programmer, not a designer, and would like to program in languages I already know (Python, C++).

thanks
a beginning Qt hacker

PS: Java went through this issue with JavaFX, originally having a JavaFX language, before dropping it, and including the JavaFX scene graph and controls as a standard Java library.